Aelis Couture Presents Its New Spring Summer 2024 Collection: Lyrica

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A swallow flying in the sky overlooking a Tuscan hill, which suddenly decides to fly into the internal space limited by the marble walls of Sofia's house, guides and inspires AELIS to reflect on freedom in constant and delicate balance between strength and lightness. The grace and elegance of the swallow and the lyrical energy of her song accompany this season's eco-ethical, art-couture creation.

For the new collection AELIS continue the collaboration with the Opera de Paris and Christine Neumeister, director of the costume department who offered to Sofia Crociani the access to elements of historical archives perfectly preserved and belonging to productions of the past. The trace of the artists, often singers, is present in every fiber of the elements chosen and guides Sofia in the creation of unique works that dialogue between the lived and the living.

AELIS, which has always structured the dress around the impalpable movement of the fabric that sculpts it, this time takes inspiration from historical underwear as a tool to protect the body and creates a collection where the extremely light meet or repose on the rigid structures. Sofia pays homage to classical Ballet with long tulle skirts and to Opera through the up-cycling of petticoats and corsets. Within each element appears the trace of their experience and AELIS expressly leaves visible the trace of the history of the dress which lives again in a new creation, witness to a past that offers itself to the future.

A 1963 crinoline served for Verdi's Don Carlo becomes the support for a cotton macramé lace top that rests vertically on the skirt. The width and structure of the petticoats offer AELIS a reflection on the protection of the female body and its fragility. A baroque crinoline accompanies the pink organic silk mousseline poncho which creates an evanescent movement carried by the rigid structure underneath. A flounce of powder blue tulle folds generate a volume on the bottom of a dress degraded wheel silk, studded with rhinestones of the same color that recalls the passage of a cloud.

The choice to use the no gender corset worn under the tuxedo jacket covered with jewelry created by Les Interessants, arises from the male use of covering the body during battles and hunting which only in the Renaissance became part of women's clothing as well for protection of the body. In counterpoint a bra embroidered with mirrors combines with organic silk tulle “bois de rose” and creates a light silhouette like a butterfly wing.

A trace of red velvet structures the ballerina silhouette and offers a moment of reflection on the presence of this color. Red discreetly appears as a graphic trace in Constance Haond's make-up and refers to a warning message towards the violence of which the most fragile living being is often a victim, but also to the desire that the beauty of the creation that identifies it is capable to transform his condition. For AELIS the choice of muses is always and still linked to engagement and model friends like Emma Zoe, a young law student, appears in the show as eco-ethical messengers to protect life on this planet.

Jacopo Godani, artist and friend of Sofia, signs a series of short videos made during the fashion show. The music that accompanies the models is played live by the cellist and artist Juile Laderach, celebrate classical and contemporary composition while for the film of the fashion show her cello meets the sound creation of MR.sMiFF. Last December the art of the opera singing became UNESCO's intangible cultural world heritage, AELIS couture show her collection in the temple of opera Bastille and pays homage to this wonderful art.